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Aug. 29, 1933. Bl 1 KELLY 1,924,501

INVENTOR BY l ATTOR EY 30 any color to other areas than those which are to V35 sary to cut out, at substantial expense, all of the `40 design.

Patented Aug.29,1933 Y, t l, t 1,924,501` f UNITED STATES PATENT: OFFICE i f y' PRINTING v Bernard J. Kelly, Philadelphia, Pa.,` assignor to SloaneV-Blabon Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa.,

a corporation' of Delaware Application February 1, 1933. serial No.1654,610 f 12 claims.` V(o1. 41 -v2s) This invention relates to a method of printing out its useful life. The use of masher blocks foldesigns, and more particularly to the method of lowing the overlay printing has for manyyears printing in which the details of the design are been common practice, in order to blend, to some first applied to the base, vand the background is extent, the overlay colors into/the background,

then applied over the detail, as well as upon adjaand to level the surface so that the-detail areas 60 cent areas. .will not be-subjected'to such 4excessive Wear, and

The invention is designed particularly for the the design may remain during the greater part of production of -novel decorative effects in printed the life ofthe printed goods. Even'the use of h iloor coverings and the like, and accordingly will masher blocks inA this way, however, does notresult be described in connection with that use. `It is to in extending the design t entirely through the 65 be understood, however, that the invention is not coating,Y Y l limited to this particular use, but may be applied One advantage of the present invention is to generally, wherever designs are to be printed upon provide `a novel method of pr'i1iting`, vby which the a surface with colors which are' adapted to iloW background color may be applied indiscriminate- 120 a greater 01' lese extent after beine applied te lfover theentire 'area to be entered bythe de- 70 the surface, Whether such colors are inks, paints, sign, but in which, when the article is completed, vernishes, er any other type l0f Surface coating the design win extend completely through the material. The word color is used in this connec- Coating, so thattit cannot be worn away except as tion, of course, to include black and white, as well the` Coating is tworn entirelythrough.v Another 2o as the various hues, Such as blue', green, yellowL object of the invention is to provide novel effects 75 eto l in which the colors ofthedesig'n may bebeauti Prior to my invention, designs Which have been fully blended or maybe-made to exhibit `endless produced upon this class of goods have been -mlde `variations from the exact outline Yof, the 4applied v 1n one of two ways`V VIn `some cases, the design is design t Y 'Y 1 printed by What is known as the -Cut'olt method Although itis `an important advantage of my 80 in which case, the detail of the design,that is, invention that the 'b1ocks by'whch ther/ground, A all oi' the colors which are to contrast orbe dis- C0101. is applied do" not havel to'` be Cut monding tlfgulshed m an? Way fromthelekground, er? to the detaii'of the design, Vand the feet that the printed each on its own area, without applying design extends entirely thtough thecoating is of exhibit that particular color inthe finished' article, 1 rngegatrf phpeayttleetg l and the background is applied in the same way, t ich e' only to areas which are to exhibit the background lbgfvjgcflehcg pos t l color. When this method is adopted, iti is necese of attainmentby the known methods ofA printing. Thus, softly: blended effects surpassinganything `which could be produced either. by cutout or. *overlay printing are easilyY attained, 4and true marbelizedfeffects can alsobe produced,` in` `which fthe veining extends irregularly under the 95 In the so-called overlay method, the background ground Color" preclsely as .the vems dlsappear lcolor is printedrst, and is printed over theentire gradually. bene'ath the Surfae of a morbleffand y area on which the design is to be displayed, after `numerous other novel effects and variatlons rom i which the detail colors are applied on top of the exlstmg qeoratw? effcts may be Seuredpy thef 1 background color, This method saves'the expense use of thlsmventlon' x100 of cutting the block by'which the background l In the .aC-Companymg drawlngf have 111115' color is applied, and with some types of design trato@ one oXofmlle of the opphoatlon offmy'-m" I produces a moredesirable effect. `The -overlaid ,Ventlol to Pmtmg .of felt base oo'oovemg, colors, however, -arelikely tobe raisedA slightly mammal blocks which are used for applying various colors, so thatteach has remaining only such printing area as corresponds to the area which isto be covered by the particular color in the finished above the level Oi the backgroundQand therefore Fgf 1 ,is a, diagrammatic VWShoWDg" the 105 to be subjected to the greatest wear. Since these Various 'Wint blocks Whohj may lo? use@ 111 EID-f 'colors do not extend through tliepaint coating, plyllg the Colors to the boso Shoot.; ff but are largely carried `on the surface ofthe backj Fig-2 iSy a Plan VBW Of@ DQTJQIl-OSUCI Sheet ground color, these details of the designare' likely as Yit would appear in theportio'n ofthe `printing to be worn away before the material'has' served V'lllewh-l'f1e CQTIGSDOIldng t0 Fg 12211@ .l 110 plied by the block 1,2, bringing itto the surface, soV

l tions ofthe detail of the design are applied to the base sheet. The second block 11, in this case also, isadapted to apply to detailed portions of the design. The third block 12 is a full block` not -cut away'within the design area, and inthe printing operation this block applies theground color over the detail colors already' applied bythe I "areas, and I have found that using the brush i `pressing process substantially as described in said blocks 10, 11, and the brush bloc'llS may be used, in this case, following the application of the ground color by the bloclr 12, This brush bloei;V

serves, by pressing its bristles into the paint coating, to draw the underlay color applied by the blocks 10 and llthrough the ground color apf that the detail of the design is developed in the finished article. This brush block, depending upon the Stioeee of the bristles may, also Serve i2o e greater or lees 'extent to bleed the detail colors with each other and/or with the ground oolor by its Stipplneeotioni es it iepreeeeo against and withdrawn froml `the coatingY Fi.

many i@ this Case. .a maShC" 0109K 14@ p roYidtd which serves, by a light mashing operation, to

f smooth out any surface irregularities which might result from the4 brush-.pressing operation. It will be apparent to those skilled in the that in this diagrammatic illustration YI have chosen a particularly lsimple problem, and thatV ordinarily more blocks will be required for producing the nished design.' In some1 cases it may be desirable, after lthe ground .color is ',applied, to, apply in addition an overlay color inorder to'produce some diierent effect from vthat which will'be producedv by the underlay, and in some cases, in-

' steadof using a full bloclgfo'r applying the ground Colon; the ground ,Color may be 'applied by .e block Whioh isout out to leave areas, for the application of, other detalle by the ooo-olli method in' order to Drodooe oeltoio, deooretive-eieote oheieoterf istic of the'V cut-out methods, in addition to those Ywhich are to be produced by the underlay method vof the present inventionand itmayjin some cases, be desirable to apply additionalcolors or various v'other steps aftermthe brush-pressing and/or mashing, as forexample, the application of linesm'ore clearly to deneand outline certain designareas, or to apply certain Adesign details which it is desired to retain in sharpout- In Fig. 2, I have illustrated the eiectsproduced. l `at the gvarious stages of the printing with the lll ' color;

line withoutthe blending which would. result from the brush pressing and/or mashing steps l Thesey suggestions are, of course, not intended to be eX- haustiveput merely as any indication of the unlimited variationsto which the method of 'my present invention maybe accommodated.

blocks illustrated in Figi.v 'At the first station 10a, certain lines of color are applied at thesecond station 11a, additional linesof the SecondY color areapplied; at the station 12a these lines andthe intervening areasare completely covered with the ground. Color. In tbepresent oase, however, the ground Color iS eorelateel to, elle. detallados niet. elle oder, eend. i@ bleed enough `to the Asurface even before the'brush pressing, so rthat at the intermediate station. 1217 jthese linesV ioooeeerl throoeh the Soreoe' of "the ground Eer ocertain 'types o fY design, this flowing through of Ythe colorjrst applied to the surface,

or perhaps, more accuratelyf,` the flowing away ofv Vproperties of these various colors.

eofpenling application softer and more pleasing effects 'can be obtained with underlay printing as herein described than with either overlay or cut-out printing, las heretofore used.' In Fig.A F', I have shown a portionof tlfleinishedV material tr.in section .to illustrate how the detail colors extend from top tobottom of the coating, and aresrnoothly blended at their lateral borders.

In the preferred practice of .thev invention .as f above described, the color as applied by the blocks 1 0 and 1l are colorsV having considerabletack, `while the ground color applied by the block 121s Vpreferably shorter and of less vtack than those .applied by the blocks l0 and l1. Thus, for eX- ample, I may use colors ordinarily thoughtvof as i block colors'for printing the detail Von the blocls v 10 and 11 and a color which would ordinarily be 105 regarded as aline color for printing'the ground on the block l2. The veffects whichlare produced, and particularly the extent to whichthe underlay colors voluntarily appear at the surface-may be considerably varied at will, according to lthel par- 1,10 ticulareffects desired, by regulating the relative v Grdinarily, however, I prefer to use for the ground colora paint which has no more'tack and is no less short than the color used forthe underlying due-V tail, since otherwise the blocks tend to become choked with the paint. Y. Y

As already suggested above, Vnumerous changes can be made from the particular application of my invention, and the particular procedure outlined above. Inrsome cases it maybe desirable not to disturb the effect which isproduced by the voluntary ow of the paints either to expose more or less completely the'underlaydetail, or to bring the underlay so close to thevsurface that lit may 12,5 appear "through a translucent nlm of the ground color ory largely blendedvvith the ground color, and

in this ,case the blocks 13 and 14 would, ofcourse,

.be omitted. The brush pressing is given only as to modify the effects [as voluntarily producedby the paints applied according to the. underlay method. l' According to the particular decorative eiectwhich it is desired to produce,the paints may be blown out, e. g., as described and claimed 1,35 inthe co-pending application of Kemmler,r and Weigle, Ser. No; 639,776, led OctoberZfl, 1932,or may be subjected merely'v to a mashing with a pin or `line block;y or a sduashingtreatment may be used to spread thvevcolors laterally intomore or less grotesque and irregularV patterns by means of blocks having imperforate'surfaces of substantial area. For example, sawed blocks in which the sawfcuts are spaced as'muchas a Vhalf-inchor moremy be used'to cause alsquashing eiect, la nd fo in this manner .decorative effects maybe produced Y "ini striking contrasttoV the softly blended'eiects V` resulting from the use of brush `blocks with'ileX- relatively small width. Where a minimumA distortion of the pattern is desired and a maximum drawing through of the detail color to the surface, we nd that a stiff brush may be used, e. g., having spaced Wire bristles, so that there is little or Vno flexing-of the bristles, but merely a drawing of the detail color through to the surface. By the omission or choice of these or numerous other supplemental treatments, or any combination vof them, an innumerable Variety of decorative effects may be attained, in all of which the design will extend substantially throughout the entire depth of the coating, although it may `vary in exact form as the coating is Worn. I am aware that numerous other changes thanthose particularly enumerated may be made, and the underlay method of printing may be combined with numerous other expedients without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention.

I claim:

1. The method of printing which comprises applying color to limited design areas, applying a ground color thereon, and drawing the color` of the `design through the ground color by pressing closely spaced narrow projections through the ground color into the designcolor and withdrawing said projections while the colors are still Wet.

2. The method of producing marbleized patterns which comprises applying color along irregular lines to simulate marble veining, applying a ground colorY thereover, and intermingling the colors irregularly at theborders of the veininglines.

3. The method of printing irregularly blended designs which comprises printing color on areas corresponding to the detail of said design, thereafter printing the ground color so that it overlies at least a part ofthe detail, and drawing color of saiddetail through the ground -color.

4. The method as defined in claim 1, in which the design color is drawn through the ground color by means of a brush block, the bristles of which adhere to the color of said detail sufiiciently to drawit back through the ground color.

5. The method of printing designs which extend throughout the depth of theprnted epating which comprises first printingthe detail of said design and thereafter printing thel ground `color thereover, the ground color having properties so related vto those of the detail color that the latter bleeds through the former leaving the detail largely exposed. i

6. The methodu as defined in claim 5,*in which V the painted coating is mashed While Wet with a` masher block to draw the detail color to the surface in such areas as may not have been fully exposed by the unaided ilowof said ground color and detail color.

'7. The method of printing a design which comprises printing detail of said design in one color and thereafter applying a groundcolor which is shorter and has considerablyless tackthanthe color flrstapplied in printing said detail, said ground color being applied over the detail color on areas which are to exhibit said detail as Well as upon previously unprinted intervening areas.

8. The method of printing a design'which com- 4'prises rst applying colorto areas which are to exhibit detail yof the `design and thereafter applying a ground color `both upon areas already` Q8, in which the detail color is drawn through and softly blended with the ground color by means'of a brush block having ilexible bristles.

11. The method of printing as dened in claim 8, in Whichthe detail color is exposed by blowing the surface of the applied color while it is still Wet and fluid.

12. The method of printing as defined in claim 8, in which the detail color is exposed irregularly by means'of a squashing block, Y

BERNARD J. KLLY.v 

